{"id":14400,"date":"2019-08-20T17:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14400"},"modified":"2019-08-20T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:38:56","slug":"lagos-assembly-confirms-alogba-as-chief-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/lagos-assembly-confirms-alogba-as-chief-judge","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Assembly confirms Alogba as Chief Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lagos\">Lagos <\/a>State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed Hon. (Justice) Kazeem Olanrewaju Alogba as the Chief Judge.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mudashiru Obasa stated that the Chief Judge had proven to be capable of the office and that it was a mere formality for him to appear before the lawmakers for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that Alogba had been serving as the Acting Chief Judge of the state for some months.<\/p>\n<p>The House subsequently confirmed Alogba as the Chief Judge of the state through a voice vote supervised by the Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Alogba, who was born in 1960, attended Holy Trinity Primary School and spent four years in the school before proceeding to Ikorodu High School.<\/p>\n<p>He later proceeded to Baptist Academy for Advanced levels and then went to the University of Lagos, where he read law and graduated in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>He started working at the Federal Ministry of Justice in 1982 before he left for private service and worked in law firms as a lawyer before joining the service of the Lagos State Government as a judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed Hon. 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